The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment
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...impressive on a larger scale, too. The first paper reporting genome editing by CRISPR in mammalian cells appeared...reviewed in Lander, 2016). The first base editor was reported three years later in 2016 (Komor et al., 2016)...on one allele of his CPS1 gene, which could be repaired with an A→G edit on the complementary strand. ...enzyme requires a PAM sequence of NGG (where N represents any base), their engineered variants are more...